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Ari Shavit: Olmert must go now
By: Israel Insider staff and partners   
Published: August 11, 2006   
 
Senior columnist Ari Shavit, generally considered left of center in his views, says that there is no mistake that Ehud Olmert did not make this past month:

"If Olmert runs away now from the war he initiated, he will not be able to remain prime minister for even one more day. Chutzpah has its limits. You cannot lead an entire nation to war promising victory, produce humiliating defeat and remain in power. You cannot bury 120 Israelis in cemeteries, keep a million Israelis in shelters for a month, wear down deterrent power, bring the next war very close, and then say - oops, I made a mistake. That was not the intention. Pass me a cigar, please."

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